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Buttigieg: Electric Vehicles Could Be 'Very Useful' During a Power Outage
Cybercast News Service ^ | October 5, 2022 | 5:47am EDT | Susan Jones

Posted on 10/05/2022 7:23:30 AM PDT by Olog-hai

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was ready with his answer when Fox News’s Neil Cavuto asked him about the widespread, hurricane-related power outages in southwest Florida.

“Do you think this reminds folks that we’re not ready, or the EVs are not ready for prime time?” Cavuto asked Buttigieg.

“Well, I actually think this is a great example of one of the many benefits of those tools,” Buttigieg said: “I was just at the Detroit Auto Show a couple of weeks ago. And one of the things that was very impressive about some of the vehicles that we saw, including the — for example, the pickup trucks that are on the market, entering onto the market right now, is that their power can actually flow both ways. So, in an extreme event, from a neighborhood resiliency perspective, they can actually work basically like a generator, except that you don’t have to have diesel ready for them. What they’re doing is, they’re using the battery capacity to power a home and, in that sense, could be very useful in a scenario like this.”

(Left unasked and unanswered was the question, how do you recharge your EV once the car battery runs down powering the house? Gas cans are portable; electric charging stations are not.)

Buttigieg said no one envisions an “overnight” transition to electric vehicles. …

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Travel
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To: Olog-hai

To be fair, as a History and Literature major from HaHvaad, there was no history or literature on EV’s available at the time of Bootyjugs graduation, sooooo……


121 posted on 10/07/2022 7:01:36 AM PDT by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: Olog-hai
This is exactly why GOP control of the Senate is critical this upcoming term. Why do you think the MSM keeps pimping Senate suppression polls?

Shackling this queen to the other qween, the future Ratchet-In-Chief, costs them the 2024 election.

Trump in a cakewalk. Period.

122 posted on 10/07/2022 7:09:22 AM PDT by StAnDeliver (Tanned, rested, and ready.)
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